Going - Standard. Overcast
Jackpot Pool - 276.15 Dividend - 193.30 Winning Units - .41. Partial Carry Over of 114.81 to Navan on Saturday 16th November. Placepot Pool - 29,680.38 Dividend - 49.10 Winning Units - 422.75. Days Aggregate - 188,168.61 Last Year 173,309.55
Back-to-back Dundalk wins for Dark Ace
He's a good horse, I like this horse a lot. I bought him in Goresbridge for 40 grand at the breeze-up sales. . He disappointed me the first day but we ran him over seven and I probably shouldn't have, it was my fault. He ran too keen and sort of half ran away that day. He fell in a hole up the straight in Naas. . Then we ran him in Navan and he ran a bit with the choke out and we just couldn't get him to settle. We did a lot of work with him and fair play to Adam and the guys at home. He has really settled down and has really manned up. . I think you could step this horse back to five (furlongs) with the pace he has. . I'm looking forward to him for next year, he is going to have a break. . He has two runs for the all-weather finals and there is a 150 grand race for three-year-olds in Newcastle, and he has one more run to get for that. We might do that with him.
Dundalk double for McGuinness & Caffrey
All good! I was very happy with him. . He finished well over five on his last run and he's probably more of a six (furlong horse) which was ideal. . Adam was very good on him, we were drawn wide and he got him out and got him up there into a nice position. . He worked well and he's probably dropped down a few pound. . The job is done and the boys are happy.
Marnane's Ja'marr makes winning handicap debut
Obviously, his first run, we all saw it and it was a good run in a very good maiden.
Mulvany & Joyce strike with tough juvenile
We were a little bit disappointed as he got blocked three times the last day in Galway. . We weren't coming here with him and we were disappointed that he didn't get a clear run, so we decided we would give him a spin on the all-weather here. . He might run on Wednesday, all going well, and then we will give him a little bit of a break because he is a horse for next year. He's a big lad.
Tudor Manor rules the roost
New trip sees Genoah off the mark
He's not champion jockey for nothing!. Delighted for the lads that own him, good friends of mine. He handles the surface well. Stepped him up to a mile and one in Punchestown and he came home well, and the step up to a mile and a-quarter here really suited him. He's at the backend of his three-year-old year, but he is still relatively lightly raced - it is only his fifth run. We'll see what the handicapper does and he could possibly go handicapping here, he's in good form and he likes it up here. We'll see what is there for him. Colin thinks as he grows up he will have no problem staying a mile and a-half. He's still a little bit green when he got there, he just had a little look. Colin was delighted with him.
Flynn & Donaghue-Leahy also double up at Dundalk
The Real Screamer bolts up in the nightcap
I think that is Chris' first winner for me - he hasn't ridden too much for me as he is always booked and he's too good to ride for me! . They went a savage pace and he picked it up and did it well. . We thought he was well handicapped on his homework, but he has been really disappointing. . He ran well in Navan actually and just maybe did too much on possibly too stiff a track. Then we thought on Navan to drop him back to a mile and that didn't work either. . Basically, we were going to give up. I said I thought he would like the surface and we took a chance and it really worked.